Lesson 6

Doctrine and Covenants 101–105

The following assignments include various learning activities, such as questions, lists, essays, charts, comparisons, contrasts, and surveys. To receive credit for this lesson, you must complete the number of assignments indicated below and submit them to your institute instructor or administrator. You may submit your work either electronically or on paper, handwritten or typed.

Each lesson should take approximately 60–90 minutes to complete, the same amount of time you would typically spend in a weekly institute class. Since reading the scripture block listed in the lesson heading is expected of all institute students prior to class, the estimated time for each assignment does not include the time you need to spend reading the scripture block.

Complete assignments 1, 4, and any one of the remaining assignments:

The Lord permitted afflictions to come upon the Saints in Missouri because . . .

In spite of the mistakes of the Missouri Saints, the Lord intended to . . .

Like the prophet Abraham, Church members must be . . .

If members of the Church cannot endure chastening, they cannot be . . .

The Saints in Missouri were guilty of . . .

The Saints in Missouri were slow to hearken to God, so He was . . .

When life is easy, some Church members do not listen to the Lord, but when life is difficult . . .

Write how these principles can influence your perspective regarding chastening and trials in your own life.

Read Doctrine and Covenants 101:11–21. Write a few sentences to explain how these verses can bring comfort as you prepare for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

Write five questions about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ and the Millennium that can be answered from Doctrine and Covenants 101:22–38. After each question, note the verse where the answer can be found.

Read Doctrine and Covenants 101:43–67 and the institute student manual commentary “D&C 101:44–64: What Does This Parable Refer To”? (page 243). Write a paragraph that explains in your own words how the parable relates to the Saints in Missouri at that time. Include in your paragraph an explanation of the following:

How the Saints’ failure to build a temple hindered “the work of the gathering” (verse 64).

How our obedience to the Lord or our failure to obey affects not only us but others as well, including the Lord.

Read Doctrine and Covenants 101:76–95 and the student manual commentaries “D&C 101:76–79: Was the Constitution of the United States Established for All Flesh?” “D&C 101:80: God Himself Established the United States Constitution,” “D&C 101:80: ‘By the Hands of Wise Men Whom I Raised Up unto This Very Purpose,’” and “D&C 101:81–95: Why Was It So Important for the Saints to Appeal for Redress?” (pages 244–45). Then write a paragraph that explains the following in your own words:

The relationship between the Lord’s words about the Constitution of the United States and His command for the Saints to seek redress for their losses in Missouri.

Read Doctrine and Covenants 102:9–10 and the student manual commentary “D&C 102:2, 9–10: The Special Purpose of the First High Council” (pages 245–46). Who presided over the high council described in section 102? Who presides over stake high councils today?

Read the student manual “Historical Background” for Doctrine and Covenants 104 (page 252). Also read the student manual commentaries “D&C 104:1–10: The United Order Was Established by Covenant” and “D&C 104:9: What Are ‘the Buffetings of Satan’?” (pages 252–53). Then write responses to the following:

What were the consequences faced by those who broke their covenant with the Lord?

Write a few sentences that describe what you learn from these verses about the seriousness of the covenants you have made with the Lord.